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Photos of the day: 12/19

Photos of the day

Villagers walk home carrying water collected from the Kuakhai River on a foggy morning in Bhubaneswar, India. AP photo

A woman walks on the ledge of her house at the Deoli-Benigram village in Rudraprayag district, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India. The Indian government still doesn’t have a final toll for the thousands of people killed in massive flash floods earlier this year, but in this Himalayan hamlet known as the Village of Widows, 57 people were killed, about a quarter of its population. The village has 37 widows from the floods, making up about a third of its remaining inhabitants and giving the town its grim new name. AP photo

A Cal Fire helicopter flies over Pfeiffer Ridge in Big Sur, Calif. The wildfire burning Monday destroyed at least 15 homes and forced about 100 people to evacuate. AP photo

A Pro-European Union activist plays with a ball in front of barricades at the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine. AP photo

Dee Sinclair, who bills himself as the real black Santa, delights 4-year-old Joe Morris IV, in Atlanta. Fusing the icon of the long-white beard and red suit from American artist Norman Rockwell and later Coca-Cola, in recent years the new Santas incorporate their own ethnic take on the Christmastime figure. AP photo

Santa left his sleigh behind as he rode atop an elephant from the Ringling Bros.and Barnum & Bailey Circus when he visited E.L. Bing Elementary School to deliver gifts to 100 of the school’s top performers. JIM REED/STAFF

Photos of the day: 12/19

Villagers walk home carrying water collected from the Kuakhai River on a foggy morning in Bhubaneswar, India. AP photo